A Little Golden Book RAGGEDY ANN and ANDY by By Polly Curran - MCMLXXV (1975)

Troy, NY: Merriam and Moore Book. Illus. by Anderson, Alexander. Very Good. Soft cover. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. A little, old book, nice as it could be. All paper, Very Good. Number IV in the series of Milner Toys. In this story, Henry Milner goes to great lengths, and depths, to learn about amphibia. Another of the moralizing tales of Mrs. Sherwood(1775-1851). Ca. 1851. Nine woodcuts and 24 pp., the standard format of the series. Cover is purple, as the cover of the only other I have seen (pictured). Please see Master Henry's Walk, listed separately..

J. Mariner, 1945. First Edition 1st Printing (and. Board book. Good. Dick Dever - Play Spell (Mechanical). Very Rare. brown cloth spine, white board. There is no title printed on the spine. color interior illustrations. [Play-Spell; Self-Entertaining; Play-Spell is self-entertaining. The child can make a picture appear by pulling the tabs under the letters up (or down). In doing so he has hidden the picture on the reverse side of the page. Thus, after completing a picture he turns the page to find a new word to be pictured. ; Educational ; Play-Spell is a real aid to the child who is learning to spell. It is especially useful if the child is encouraged to from the habit of pulling the tabs in their proper spelling sequence, saying the letters as he does so. Then the child, while playing, is learning to recognize letters, to group letters into words, and to visualize the object word identifies.] Patent Pending J. Mariner, 8010 Campion Dr. Los Angeles 45, Calif. 8'' x 12'' (aprox.).… Read More

Chatto & Windus. London.,1935. Reprint. Small 4to.(9.3 x 7 inches). 27 full colour plates, each with a page of text opposite. Small area of loss to the bottom corner of one page and a few pages with tears into the margins, without any loss to the page. Overall a very good clean copy which has recently been finely bound in leather. Full blue morocco, spine with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled borders. Front board lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Overall a very good, attractively bound copy.:

London and New York : William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co, 1909 A good copy of the 1st edition in the original decorative cloth binding with decorative endpapers and 15 colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Top page edges blue - bottom edges untrimmed. The plates have captioned tissue-guards. Numerous black and white designs and illustrations. The binding has some edge/corner wear, a little fading to the spine and slight nibbling to top and bottom of spine. There is a slight fade to the outer edge of the front board but the beautiful gilt titles and decoration are clean and bright; and a little spotting to the back board. The whole book has a very slight lean. The decorative endpapers have slight browning - the front pastedown has an ink ownership signature. There is a tissue guarded frontispiece and decorative title page. The contents are in very good condition being clean with only the very occasional spot - the colour plates are beautiful. The tissue guard to plate 11 has a crease. A good copy.

Printed by J. Fairburn. 110, Minories. (London). No date. 1820 - 1842. (4.6 x 3.6 inches). 8pp, plus publishers green wraps, printed in black to the front panel with title, publisher and woodcut illustration. Unsewn but with the later addition of a pin to keep it all together. Each page with one or two, a total of ten, woodcuts and text printed below. A few creases to the page edges but overall a very good example of this rare edition. ---- No copy of this edition listed on Worldcat or Copac. ---- Fairburn was located at this address from 1820 to 1842.- P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers. p. 65. ---- The Osborne collection in Toronto has a similar edition, dated 1820 and published by Fairburn, that it records as being illustrated by Smeeton.

Troy, NY: Merriam and Moore Book. Illus. by Anderson, Alexander. Very Good. Soft cover. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. A little, old book, nice as it could be. All paper, Very Good. Number IV in the series of Milner Toys. In this story, Henry Milner goes to great lengths, and depths, to learn about amphibia. Another of the moralizing tales of Mrs. Sherwood(1775-1851). Ca. 1851. Nine woodcuts and 24 pp., the standard format of the series. Cover is purple, as the cover of the only other I have seen (pictured). Please see Master Henry's Walk, listed separately..

J. Mariner, 1945. First Edition 1st Printing (and. Board book. Good. Dick Dever - Play Spell (Mechanical). Very Rare. brown cloth spine, white board. There is no title printed on the spine. color interior illustrations. [Play-Spell; Self-Entertaining; Play-Spell is self-entertaining. The child can make a picture appear by pulling the tabs under the letters up (or down). In doing so he has hidden the picture on the reverse side of the page. Thus, after completing a picture he turns the page to find a new word to be pictured. ; Educational ; Play-Spell is a real aid to the child who is learning to spell. It is especially useful if the child is encouraged to from the habit of pulling the tabs in their proper spelling sequence, saying the letters as he does so. Then the child, while playing, is learning to recognize letters, to group letters into words, and to visualize the object word identifies.] Patent Pending J. Mariner, 8010 Campion Dr. Los Angeles 45, Calif. 8'' x 12'' (aprox.).… Read More

Chatto & Windus. London.,1935. Reprint. Small 4to.(9.3 x 7 inches). 27 full colour plates, each with a page of text opposite. Small area of loss to the bottom corner of one page and a few pages with tears into the margins, without any loss to the page. Overall a very good clean copy which has recently been finely bound in leather. Full blue morocco, spine with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled borders. Front board lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Overall a very good, attractively bound copy.:

London and New York : William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co, 1909 A good copy of the 1st edition in the original decorative cloth binding with decorative endpapers and 15 colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Top page edges blue - bottom edges untrimmed. The plates have captioned tissue-guards. Numerous black and white designs and illustrations. The binding has some edge/corner wear, a little fading to the spine and slight nibbling to top and bottom of spine. There is a slight fade to the outer edge of the front board but the beautiful gilt titles and decoration are clean and bright; and a little spotting to the back board. The whole book has a very slight lean. The decorative endpapers have slight browning - the front pastedown has an ink ownership signature. There is a tissue guarded frontispiece and decorative title page. The contents are in very good condition being clean with only the very occasional spot - the colour plates are beautiful. The tissue guard to plate 11 has a crease. A good copy.

Printed by J. Fairburn. 110, Minories. (London). No date. 1820 - 1842. (4.6 x 3.6 inches). 8pp, plus publishers green wraps, printed in black to the front panel with title, publisher and woodcut illustration. Unsewn but with the later addition of a pin to keep it all together. Each page with one or two, a total of ten, woodcuts and text printed below. A few creases to the page edges but overall a very good example of this rare edition. ---- No copy of this edition listed on Worldcat or Copac. ---- Fairburn was located at this address from 1820 to 1842.- P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers. p. 65. ---- The Osborne collection in Toronto has a similar edition, dated 1820 and published by Fairburn, that it records as being illustrated by Smeeton.